The ultimate stress show: Managing stress

The aim
Those who work their way through the programme will be able to understand the nature of stress and how it effects people.

About the programme
Pressure is all part of simply being alive, if there were no pressure we wouldn't do anything, but excess pressure leads to Stress and that can be a very bad thing. When people make positive remarks (mistakenly) about stress they actually mean pressure. Its pressure that is positive and drives us towards our goals. However when the amount of pressure we are experiencing rises above what we believe we can cope with it can easily turn to stress. In the United Kingdom it is estimated that 1/3 of absence from work is stress related ' other industrial countries (USA, Australia) report similar findings. It represents a very large financial cost to organisations and an equally large personal cost to individuals in the form of physical and behavioural symptoms.

This video is all about limiting the potential stressors at work that can lead to damaging stress. Admitting to and dealing with stress isn't a weakness it's a positive action that can reap huge personal and organisational rewards.

The ultimate stress show shows how our own behaviour can be stressful to ourselves and others and how changes to that behaviour can lead to a more stress-free working environment. The video shows a host of stressed characters in a multitude of scenes being guided by a Guardian Angel through an Eight Point Plan:
 

1. Get your priorities right

Style: Fast and furious, light-hearted scenarios

Programme includes: DVD(30 mins), Key Clips DVD, Course leader's guide, Delegate worksheets on disk, Powerpoint presentation slides \ Certificate on disk, Self-study workbook on disk

Prices: DVD £1299.00, Rental £299.00 (excludes VAT and delivery)

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A Knowledge-Base and 34 Innovative Interventions for Managing Stress with Groups and Individuals

The trouble with stress is that it is personal. What one person finds stressful another person may find exhilarating. But it’s more complicated even than that, because under another set of circumstances or another time, the first person may now feel excited and the second person fearful. Whilst stress itself may appear ambiguous, one thing is certain: stress-related illness is reckoned to cost British companies many millions a year.

Roy Bailey’s Stress Management Toolkit for Trainers and Counsellors provides a starting point to help you understand stress, identify solutions and compare their value for individuals, teams and the whole organisation.

Part I of this manual contains a knowledge-base on stress that:

• introduces some of the most well-known models for understanding stress;

• advocates an approach to managing stress in the workplace that is based on an understanding of stress, your workplace and the people within it.

The majority of the innovative interventions that make up Part II of this manual are suitable both for group work and one-to-one stress counselling. They offer a variety of ways for individuals and groups to understand stress, to change their perceptions and their behaviours and to support themselves and their colleagues in the workplace.

Any organisation wishing to manage stress in the workplace will need a variety of strategies to:

• provide a range of supporting structures to help anyone who is suffering from the symptoms of stress.

The bad news is that those strategies, measures and structures will need to be as individual as the organisation and the people within it; the good news is that this Toolkit is an excellent guide and coach to help you create and develop the stress management solutions your organisation needs.

Contents

Part I Stress Management –

Part II Innovative Interventions for Managing Stress:

Published: August 2001, 258 pages A4 Looseleaf

Price: £150.00 (excludes delivery)

97% of senior HR professionals believe stress is the biggest threat to the future health of the UK workforce. You need this activity!!

Participants move across a board picking up cards and discussing the issues. One set contains statements about stress that may be true or may be false and participants decide – reveals many misconceptions. Other cards ask questions of the group and elicit whether they have stress symptoms or not and what causes them to feel stressed.

Finally a set of task cards explore the whole topic through mini-case studies and questions to test knowledge and awareness of stress factors. A great discussion exercise that can be an enormous relief to staff as it gives them an opportunity to express what is bothering them.